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We have a 2017 Highlander, and the automatic emergency breaking has avoided accidents at least 3 times. One time, my wife was at an intersection turning right. She was looking left for an opening, and a teenager saw the same opening and tried to run across the street as she accelerated into the right turn. The automatic breaking saved him and my wife from a sad situation.
I do the same. I try to buy on manufacture sites when I can. Mainly because of the 1 bin policy. Feels like some times I get products that a seller bought at a discount because of defects or package damage, and these are treated the same as new.
I ordered two, and thy work great. However, note that they are not water resistant.
I took one out with a simple spill, and I now cover the ports on the working one with electrical tape. I use a usbc dust plug for the charging port.
I have worked on many mobile app development projects, and I am grateful that google and apple try to protect the consumer. App devs are in full control of the stack in the app, and it is very easy to unintentionally (or intentionally) handle your data insecurely. For example, app devs can disable https communication with their own external APIs, secretly transmit your data on their own servers, harvest your data from other apps like contacts, and build on buggy/sketchy/outdated middleware. And, there is typically no visibility for the user. Yes - same is true for desktop apps. I appreciate Apple's recent moves to make this more transparent. More needs to be done. It is much harder (not impossible) to maliciously handle your data in browsers because of standard security features (like the green lock icon when https is enabled) and powerful dev tools to examine network communication and code libraries. After building many apps, I tend to only install apps from companies that have commercial pressure to handle my data properly.